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Land/Climatevocab
Unit1vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline | Bay |
| Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to each other | Channel |
| The usual predictable pattern or weather in an area over long perio of time | Climate |
| Carry warm or cool water through the worlds oceans | Current |
| A long period of extreme dryness | Brought |
| Hight of land above sea level | Elevation |
| Cobination of teamperature,wind,and water effects in the Pacific Ocean | El Nino |
| part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline | gulf |
| A shelter place along a choreline where ships can snchor safely | harbor |
| Violent tropical storm systems, form over the warm Atlantic Ocean in late summer and fall | Hurricane |
| Cold climate lies from 60 degrees North to the North Pole and form 60 degrees South | High-latitude |
| Land area, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water | island |
| Indivitiual features of the land | landforms |
| Eastern winds become strong and the opposite of el nino occurs-Pasific Ocean gets cooler | La Nina |
| a sizeable inland body of water | lake |
| Land with steep sides that rises sharply (1000 feet or more) from surrounding land | Mountain |
| a series of connected mountaines | Mountain range |
| Seasonal wind that blows over a continent for a long period of time | Monsoon |
| Temperate climate extend from 231/2 degrees north top 60 degrees north and from south to 60 degrees south | Mid-latitude climate |
| one of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents | ocean |
| flat or rolling land at high elevation usually 300-30000 ft high | plateau |
| body of land jutting out into a lake or an ocean surrounded on three sides by water | Peninsula |
| area of low land at low elevation; covered with grass | Plains |
| characteristics of a place-naturally occurring like landforms, climate, recourses | Physical feature |
| movements of air that travel around the earth in a typcial pettern | Prevailing wind |
| warm year round extends from the equator to the tropic of cancer and from the equator to the tropic oficorn capr | Tropical climate |
| Cool or cold climate that varies the elevation | Higland Cimate |
| Dry to partially dry areas with little to no rain; teamperatures can range from very cold to very hot | Dry climate |
| name for a hurricane in asia | Typhoon |
| funnel-shaped windstorm; sometimes forms during a thunderstorm | Tornado |
| low atitude region between the tropics of cancer and the tropic of capricorn | Tropics |
| unpredictable changes in the air that take place in a short period of time | Weather |
| large natural stream of water that runs through land | River |
| Large body of water partially or completedly surrounded by land | Sea |
| narrow stretch of water joining two large bodies of water | Strait |
| area of lowland between hills and mountains | Valley |
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